trakt.tv offers a very comprehensive API with an amazing documentation. But thorough as it is – and the technical details like authentication, data formats, parameters etc. are really, really well covered – it can also feel a bit overwhelming when you jump in and want to get a first overview, or are only looking for some specific data or type of data.

As I just did exactly that, I went through the whole documentation and extracted the most relevant information. The order of this article, especially the API endpoints, follows the official API documentation. I only added some more headlines to group the endpoints in a better way:

I started to group my „twitter users I follow“ (Why is there no better word?) in (public and private) thematic lists to be able to follow them seperately. List management in Twitter’s web and mobile apps lacks a lot of features, so I went to trusted Google to find what is out there. Here are my 3 recommentations:

http://icotile.ogaoga.org – Drag and drop with the twitter avatar makes it easy to spot people that don’t belong in a list. Saves every change indicidually.

http://tweetbe.at – Theoretically more powerful than the other two because of automation options, practically a bit broken though :( I still include it here, because it is what I actually want to have.

With these tools I was able to move some people around and dramatically clean up my lists.

Now to find (or create) a Twitter client that is made for lists and this style of reading. (On Windows, I recommend Tweetdeck.)